The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-08-11
Cooper's Mammoth Brick Warehouse

Work is progressing satisfactorily on
Cooper's mammoth new brick warehouse.
and the walls will now be completed in q
short while. One portion of the building
has been finished and daily sales are now
/ held in it. All during the process of
building, tearing down the old and putting
up the new, business has not been inter
rupted in the least and farmers are accom-
modated as usual and all grades of the
weed sold at highest ruling prices. The
largest tobacco warehouse in the State.
popular and successful men connected with
the trade, the interest taken in Cooper's
new warehouse is something remarkable
| When work was first commenced it was
made known that those of his friends and
patrons who desired to DO so were requested
to lay brick in the wall. Hundreds of
| farmers and others cheerfully did so, and
in every portion of the building, are brick
that people from far and near point TO with
! a feeling Of peculiar interest and pride as
having been placed there by their own
hands. Many of Mr.. Cooper's friends at a
distance who could not he here to lay a
brick in the wall sent one to he placed
there for them. These took on various
| styles some of them being made Of marble,
| the first of this kind being sent some time
J ago by Mr.. Julian 5. Carr, President of
| the Blackwell Durham Tobacco Works.
| Then came box of handsome pressed
brick from Messrs. z. Lorillard & Co,
of Jersey City, n. j.. the largest manu-
facturers of plug tobacco in the world.
| There is a brick for each member of the
| firm, five in all, each bearing the initials
of the sender. Messrs. VIM. S. kimball
& Co.. Rochester, \. Y, manufacturers of
the celebrated Vanity Fair and Old Gold
cigarettes, one of the largest concerns of
its kind in the country, send three beautiful
| bricks, one for each member of the firm.
| MessrS.T &. Williams &c Co., of Richmond,
one of the largest manufacturing firms of
| plug tobacco in the South, largely inter
estcd in our market and extensive buyers
of leaf tobacco here, desire to identify
themselves still further with us and SO
each member of the concern sends brick
| to be placed in the wall of CoOper'S big
warehouse. Mrs. Leah Perry of Franklin
county, mother-in-law of Mr.. Cooper sends
a box Of very old brick, some of which are
III years old. They are in perfect state Of
preservation and have been in the Perry
family these many years. Messrs. NJ, I.
Smith & Co., NJ. John l.. Wingo and Mr..
Milton Cayce of Richmond, send brick
also, and many others have been promised
| and are yet to come. MeSSrS. Allen &
Ginter, the largest cigarette manufacturers
in the world, their famous Richmond
| Gem and Virginia BrGhts circling the
globe with a wreath of smoke and scat
tering the delightful aroma of the purest
and sweetest North Carolina cutters wher-
ever civilization reaches, have sent a mar
BILE slab that cclipses anything of the kind
we have yet seen. 1t is block about three
and half inches thick by four bricks
wide and bears the following inscription ::
In the upper left and right hand corners
are two we'll wrought representations of
tobacco leaves, beautifully carved and
finished in gilt. In the centre at the
top are the figures "1SS7." Under
meath this in bold clear-cut letters are
the words "Allen & Ginter, Richmond
Gem Tobacco Works" In the left hand
lower corner is a representation of pack
age of cigarettes with the words Rich
mond Gem on the label. In the right
hand corner is a similar illustration with
the words " Virginia Brights." The whole
thing, done in gilt, is one of the prettiest
tablets of the kind we ever saw and of
course is very highly priced by Mr.. Cooper.
These will probably be placed in the wall
in conspicuous place in the front part of
the building to-day. There are enough of
the pressed brick to lay this block with
and when it has been placed in position it
will form quite striking feature, an orna-
ment in fact, in the big warehouse. Messrs.
Allen & Ginter have recently Unidentified
themselves with our town and market,
having just commenced the erection
of large tobacco stemming establishment
here. Mr.. John d. Cooper, our very
popular and efficient ex-Mayor, will be
the manager and buyer for the concern
he being also member of the firm.
When such men as those named above
manifest so kindly an interest in our mar
ket in the individual enterprise of man
who has done so much for the tobacco inter
ests Of Henderson and the State, it augurs
we'll for that market, or that man. In the
wall of CoOpeI'S warehouse are brick
placed there by the men who make tobac-
CO and by those who buy it from them and
manufacture it into merchantable goods
for the use of the world. Manufacturers
and leaf dealers have sent brick here to 90
in the building and planters have laid
them in position, the one supporting the
other, symbolic of the mutual interests of
the farmer, the leaf dealer and the man
ufacturer. A common brotherhood are
they indeed and in the brick wall Of
Cooper'S new warehouse have they seemed
to meet in harmony and union of purpose
each supporting the other and all working
together for the common good OF the tobac-
co industry and those engaged in it.
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